Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; unidentified bishop saint with mitre and crozier.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the sun and the moon. Kneeling angel supporting the volute. Tonsured monk kneeling; crozier. Musician angel playing the psaltery; angel blowing a trumpet.
Arches and pinnacles at the base of the volute. Foliated decoration. Coats of arms.

Object ConditionSide 1: front section of architectural base has cracked, sheared off and been repainted.
Lower part of volute broken in two.
Large diagonal crack runningbetween the backs of the kneeling angels. This was repaired by insertion of large pin, now concealed by two ivory plugs.
The coats of arms are partly defaced.
Missing: staff.

ProvenanceLonghurst identifies the partly-defaced coats of arms on the staff as probably those of Jean de Craon, canon of Paris, archdeacon and later bishop of Le Mans (1347), archbishop of Rheims (1355) (d. 1374). Williamson and Davies propose, though unlikely, that it belonged to one of the abbots at Étival in the period c. 1330-1550, Dominique de Rambervilles (d. 1337), Albert De Onville (d. 1337), Thierry de Moulin (d. 1341), or Pierre Ier (d. 1356). In the Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff, Paris: sale, Drouot, Paris, 8 April 1861, lot 201; bought by Baron Achille Seillère, Seillère Collection until 1890. Heckscher collection: sale, 4 May 1890, lot 188; Salting collection: Salting bequest to the Museum in 1910.

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